The Best of Big 5 Safari

Day 1: Arrive to Kilimanjaro & Fly to Serengeti National Park for a Game Drive

Your adventurous journey starts upon arriving at Kilimanjaro Airport. You will fly to Central Serengeti where you will meet your guide and start the exploration of this great park. Serengeti is the park with the largest concentration of big mammals in the world. In this park you will expect to see most of the exciting wildlife like big prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, jackals, hippos, crocodiles and many more. In the late afternoon you will drive to Osinon Tented Camp for dinner and overnight.

Dinner & overnight at Osinon Camp; FB

Day 2: The Big Cats of Serengeti National Park – Serengeti National Park (Central)

After breakfast you will depart to Serengeti Central drive with picnic lunch. Serengeti is the park with the largest concentration of big mammals in the world. In this park you will expect to see most of the exciting wildlife like big prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, jackals, hippos, crocodiles and many more. Excellent encounters are available year-round and it is not unusual to encounter all large predators. In the late afternoon you will return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Optional Hot Air Balloon: $500 per person

Dinner & overnight at Osinon Camp; FB  

Day 3: The Big 5 of Ngorongoro Crater

After an early breakfast, depart with picnic lunch and drive to Ngorongoro crater for a full day of game drive. The crater has a good number of lions and cheetahs, and it is another good place to see the rare black rhino. You will spend the day on the floor of the crater (often called the eighth wonder of the world) exploring its reach flora and fauna. Because of permanent supply of food and water, animals stay in the crater all year long. This is the best place to see the rare endangered black rhinos and flamingos in lake Magadi. Other animals include Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles, warthogs, hippos, zebras, water buck, hyenas, jackals and if you are lucky enough lions will be sleeping by your vehicle for shade.

Continue to your lodge in the evening, relax after an eventful game drive day, awaiting for dinner & overnight.

Overnight at Marera Valley Lodge; FB

Day 4: Big Herds of Elephants in Tarangire

Today after early breakfast at your lodge get ready to enjoy a game drive in Tarangire, a park celebrated for its high concentration of elephants.

Your guide will lead you to search for perfect game viewing spots within this 3,000 square park appreciated for its medieval baobab trees believed to be over 1000 years old. Your game drive will concentrate around Tarangire River, a main source of water in the park that lures many animals around such as giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, lions etc.

In the afternoon, your driver-guide will lead you to the perfect area for a picnic hot lunch. Then continue scanning for various animals + birds in Tarangire (more than 500 species have been spotted).

In the late afternoon you will drive to JRO for your flight back home.